Liverpool St Station – 27 Sept 1980
We’ve seen Tim Brown’s photographs of London’s East End in the 1980s. And now we zoom in on Liverpool Street station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without. Tim used to travel on the 149 bus from Stoke Newington in Hackney to work as a train driver. He’d pass the site of the old Liverpool Street station before construction of the Broadgate office development. He shows inside the station. There’s the old station master’s office, which was then a bistro, the branch of WH Smith’s, a once vital stop of news and mags before smart phones and remote working.
Bishopsgate – 13 May 1988 – The Handpump Pub.
Taken on September 27, 1980
1987
The station was built in 1874 as the new terminus for the Great Eastern Railway to serve east London, Essex and East Anglia. By November 1875 and had a connection to the Metropolitan Railway, the world’s first underground railway.
The station roof was designed and built by the Fairburn Engineering Company, who also supplied the roof to London’s Royal Albert Hall.
In the mid-1980s the station was redeveloped. Broad Street station was demolished in 1986, and a new complex of shops, bars, restaurants and offices called the Broadgate Centre was built on the site.
3 Mar 1986
Platform 11
Liverpool St Station 1986
This is looking towards the Bishopsgate entrance to the station. This area is now built over & the entrance has shifted quite a bit towards this camera position. You can see an Underground entrance at the back that was a long tunnel that led under this concourse all the way to the central line ticket hall.
Liverpool St – 12 Dec 1981
Liverpool St – 15 Nov 1981 – I used to go in the “Baker’s Oven” shown here & worked in Kempson & Bishop’s Hose shown in the top right corner.
Liverpool St station
30 May 1981
The one thing I never did was pan round to the right where Wimpy was or the Red Star office.
I kick myself for missing it.
Note the keyed brickwork on the right where something is missing or wasn’t built.
Liverpool St station footbridge – 27 Sept 1980
This shows the back of the departures board looking west.
Westbound Central Line
Liverpool St station platforms 17 & 18 in the 1980’s
Liverpool St station 1987
Liverpool St station 1987
In the western trainshed overlooking platforms 3 to 7.
Liverpool St Station taxi ramp 1987
The ticket hall is on the right of the photo.
Liverpool St BR Station ticket office 1987
Note the war memorial, now upstairs.
1987
Liverpool St Station – Friday, 29 May 1987 – Morning
Outside the ticket office – 1987
1987
Liverpool St Station – 30 June 1987
Friday, 29 May 1987 – Morning
Tuesday, 14 July 1987
After 15.00
Looking towards the Great Eastern hotel with Platforms 9 & 10 on my left.
McDonalds is now in the background centre of this photo.
RM buses in Bishopsgate
17 Sept 1987
6 May 1988
Bishopsgate – 13 May 1988 – The Sir Paul Pindar pub in Pindar St.
The Hand Pump Pub AKA The Black Raven – 14 May 1988 – Saturday Midday – Looking north up Bishopsgate.
Liverpool St Station 3 Feb 1989
3 Sept 1989 – The view towards the old taxi ramp.
Harwich House – 14 May 1988
14 May 1988
Broad St Station
3 June 1981
This was taken from Bishops House which is now the Heron Point Tower.
Liverpool St Station 3 Feb 1989
Liverpool St rebuilding nearly complete
19 Feb 1991
All photos with permission of Tim Brown.
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